I mean, stop motion animation is always impressive in the abstract; but it’s even MORE impressive (at least to me) when we can see the person’s hand holding the figure, and the figure is a poseable toy much like stuff I’ve played with as a child, and it’s all taking place in what seems to be someone’s home; that removes the distance of “oh film artists can do a lot of cool things” with its abstract respect, and brings it into the realm of “WOW this is a thing that real people are somehow able to do, with a lot of work”.
If you’re reading this, you’ve won The Game. It’s over, it’s done, and you can breathe. Now any time you see posts telling you that you lost The Game, you can smile, shake your head, and feel sorry for all of those OTHER people who are still playing The Game, while being glad that you yourself are free.
“But that’s not how The Game works-”
If someone can arbitrarily decide that everyone on Earth is playing The Game, someone else can arbitrarily decide there’s a way to win.
Congratulations on your win!! Celebrate with a treat of your choice.
I don’t like to scare people, but this is scary and vert threatening. Trump on his webpage posted a video where he personally promised to ban all trans healthcare as a day 1 priority of his Presidency.
If you’re trans, if you have a trans loved one, if you care about human rights in the US, you! can stop him, each of us have to have hard conversations with our loved ones and talk to everyone in our lives make sure they know and understand the stakes understand that not voting or worse a vote for Trump is a vote against us, against our lives.
make sure you’re ready to vote and everyone you know is ready to vote, and where ever you are there’s a way for you to volunteer to reach voters in swing states, trust know and believe you can make all the difference
These are your RIGHTS! lets fight like hell for them.
It’s been an emotional week. I wanted to share this encounter I had with a very hateful man on the Pittsburgh bus because it reminds me that there are brave people in this world. Let’s all do everything we can to stand up for each other.
So, obviously classic wizard robes aren’t wheelchair friendly. (Alright, admittedly this isn’t common knowledge and also this definitely isn’t a problem for most but listen, this is a problem for me and I’m pleased to present a solution for it nonetheless.)
The issue is in the sleeves and the length of the robes. The traditional trumpet style allows them to get snagged, dirty, and caught in the wheels.
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This is distinctly not an issue with other mobility aids such as canes and crutches, these wizards are fine to carry on with their trumpet sleeves simply rolled up if needed.
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Now, one solution might simply to shorten the sleeves and hem to be out of the way, but that looks rather silly so I won’t do that. Instead I propose the more elegant design of a hanging sleeve to maintain that flowy magical feel while allowing for better range of motion.
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Honestly I just love the look of hanging sleeves in general and think more people should appreciate them, wheelchair user or not.
[medieval guard voice] you used to be able to look mysterious travelers in the face to figure out if they looked like anyone on ye olde conspicuously placed wanted posters. not any more though. because of cloak.
There are so many books and movies and stories and such where some great and powerful figure points to the weird and awkward scruffy loses boy and says “YOU” and the loser boy points to himself and goes “me?” And through trials and tribulations becomes strong and confident and heroic and hot and I’m just saying if we’re doing that anyways it’s not so much a stretch if the loser is a girl in act 1
What if the loser is a boy in act 1 and a girl in act 3?
I realize this is an animal crossing meme but as an astrophysicist I was really excited for a second that someone was finally seeing the light on how fricking difficult and a huge waste of time it would be to try to terraform Mars
Trump isn’t guaranteed to win this year’s presidential election because he’s been shot at. In 2020, Trump supporters voted in heavy numbers, but guess what? They still lost because we outvoted them.
Do I want to vote for Biden? No, but I will since no third-party candidate has a winning chance, and I don’t want Trump to be president again. Unless y'all are gonna overthrow the American political system and government, we need to vote.
It’s normal to be terrified about this presidential election, but don’t allow it to stop you from voting and trying to stop that orange fucker from returning to office.
it’s practically taboo to still talk about covid but god i wish we could acknowledge the worldwide trauma it’s clearly still causing in people. like, it’s flat out just. not “polite” to talk about how a mass deadly event might, JUST MIGHT, emotionally affect us a little bit. how an airborne invisible-to-the-eye thing can just BE anywhere now. how abandoned we still feel by our respective governments. how we’ve lost family, friends, either to death or misinformation and cults, which they cling to because they’re ALSO afraid but often refuse to admit it because it’d mean admitting covid is real and ongoing. we just. can’t talk about it i guess.
“sugar is poison” sugar is your body’s preferred fuel choice and if you stop eating entirely you will die
but fr when I see people claiming sugar addiction is this huge problem because when they stop eating sugar their bodies start relentlessly craving it I’m like yeah and the low fuel light on your dashboard means your car is addicted to gasoline like do you fucking hear yourself????
and then they go “but if I tough it out eventually the cravings go away, that means I was addicted to sugar” and I just want to grab them and scream “the cravings go away because your body has deduced that you must be living through some sort of famine and is diverting power to desperately attempt to keep your meat suit running by any means necessary and that’s NOT a good thing!! pls believe me there is absolutely no food you could possibly eat—bar actual life-threatening allergens and shit that’s gone bad—that could do more damage to you and your future descendants than spending significant amounts of time in famine mode!! you have officially started the slow process of starving yourself to death and it will not save you from the "horrors” of being fat oh my god stop treating your human body like a monster that must be tamed instead of a beautiful and complex organism that is doing it’s best to keep your dumb ass alive!!!!“
and then they ignore me or give me some other flawed excuse as to why it’s fine to never eat food and I get to go back to shutting up while watching people I love destroy themselves for the sake of being skinny while imagining going full [REDACTED FOR LEGAL REASONS] on the nearest diet brand CEO or health food influencer
also lets be real most people have no idea what an addiction actually is and seem to think it’s the same thing as having needs and desires which makes me want to attack John Harvey Kelloggs’ dusty corpse with a shovel but whatever I’m fine I’m over it nbd *screeches loud loud enough to shatter glass*
If you think people used to willingly stare off into the distance before smartphones, my dad told me he had this psychology assignment when he was in college in the 80s which was basically
Go to a restaraunt by yourself and eat a meal without a newspaper or journal or anything else to keep you occupied and then write a report about it
Which tells me that this was a way for a professor to inflict psychological torture on their students and that people used to bring little things with them to keep them entertained. Shown by those old pictures of everyone in a trolley reading a newspaper with one hand.
Frankly I think that the human brain has been craving smart phone forever. Perhaps we use it too much at times but if this was 1985 we also wouldn’t be talking to people. We’d just be looking at newspaper or drawing stuff on notepad instead. And the old people would all be shaking their fists about how kids spend too much time looking at that damn TV because yes this discourse has been going on long before smart phone
i bet cavemen were feeling this too. grug eating mammoth bone stew all alone and looking at a bug he put in a cup for this exact purpose
[ID: Two 3D figures carrying another figure on a stretcher. Text over one figure reads, “what happened to him?” Text over the other reads, “he ate without youtube”. / END ID]
The difference between 2014 and 2019 is insane in my mind and the jump from 2019 to 2024 both feels like it was yesterday and also like it was a different universe
stop using chatgpt!!!! take a bronze pin and carve your questions onto an ox scapula, then toss it into the fire!!!! use the cracks to divine the gods answer!!!!
citations still have to be APA 7th edition though. if you plagiarise, the gods will flood the yellow river again. and you’ll lose your academic standing.
I don’t like to scare people, but this is scary and vert threatening. Trump on his webpage posted a video where he personally promised to ban all trans healthcare as a day 1 priority of his Presidency.
If you’re trans, if you have a trans loved one, if you care about human rights in the US, you! can stop him, each of us have to have hard conversations with our loved ones and talk to everyone in our lives make sure they know and understand the stakes understand that not voting or worse a vote for Trump is a vote against us, against our lives.
make sure you’re ready to vote and everyone you know is ready to vote, and where ever you are there’s a way for you to volunteer to reach voters in swing states, trust know and believe you can make all the difference
These are your RIGHTS! lets fight like hell for them.
you can find plenty more information on Project 2025 on any reputable news source, but I thought I’d confirm OP wasn’t full of fear-mongering shit, ‘cuz this is insane.
Reblogging because this has additional links for more info and because this is one of the best concise summaries of project 2025 I’ve seen—good reference for people to understand the conservative game plan in both the coming years and their long term goals.
The important thing I’d note is that while this transition plan and objective set was created for Donald Trump, it is not necessarily specific to him—this is the distillation of what conservatives have wanted for a long time and WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR even after Trump is no longer in the picture someday. They are proposing it now because they know Trump will be likely to enact these proposals, but understand this: the things outlined in the graphics above are the world the Republican Party envisions going forward regardless of who their candidate is. They are not going away. Unless time and time again those who oppose this vision fight the Republicans at every level of government, one by one the hard fought wins those in the past have achieved will be stripped away.
Look, I have no idea what’s going to happen at the top of the Democratic ticket. And I will be the very first to list the problems I have with the way the Democratic Party is run. But I firmly believe that helping the Democrats defeat the extremely harmful things the other side wants to do needs to be a priority, and that the only way the Democrats ARE going to get reformed and start finally listening to the people they claim to represent is by making changes while working inside and alongside the party. Remembering what stands to be lost is a good reminder on why it’s important not just to throw up our hands and say it’s all fucked and there’s no hope for politics.
i live in the other side of the globe, but what the FUCK is going in in the usa. project 2025 is so screwed i have no idea how it could possibly be worse than that. everything on the list is messed up, but environmental part??? what the hell??? they want to send humanity and THEMSELVES HEAD FIRST to hell with this one
Genuinely terrified for my American friends, please fucking vote, there really, REALLY is a lesser of two evils here
It bears repeating that Trump criticized Biden for being “soft” on Gaza and wants to help Israel (exact words) “finish the job.”
